Been 10: Power Trip was published as Ben 10 by Torus Games that was ideally more for children to enjoy and wasn’t exactly excellent, but wasBeen 10: Power Trip was published as Ben 10 by Torus Games that was ideally more for children to enjoy and wasn’t exactly excellent, but was good enough for fans, I can only assume that this game sold well enough for the publisher to green-light yet another Ben 10 title for this current generation of consoles. Developed by PHL Collective. Ben 10: Power Trip is not a sequel to the 2017 title, but a brand new take on the material. It'd not exactly a good one and I feel like I should inform you right away that Ben 10: Power Trip is more of the same. If you really want to buy a game based on the cartoon series, you should stick to the original 2017 release. This isn’t a game that felt lazy, nor did it enrage me. It’s not a laughably bad title either. This is the rare case of bad game with good intentions, most of them likely from a lack of budget. If anything, Ben 10: Power Trip has a bold premise. PHL Collective tried their hardest to provide players with an actual open-world Ben 10 experience, a game with an impressively large map, different missions, side quests, collectibles, multiple kinds of obstacles that need to be cleared with Ben’s different forms, an original story, a skill tree, and much more. They tried to deliver , sadly, for as much as I wanted to recognize Ben 10: Power Trip it just feels massively mis-undercooked. I don’t really know the reason it went so bad in the end, time constraints, assets or both. All I know is that the end product feels unpolished. It doesn’t take long until you notice some massive issues with this game upon starting a save file. The initial cutscene does a pretty bad job at explaining the game’s setting and what's going on story wise even tho I personally have no idea of what’s really going on. The only thing I managed to understand was a villain performing as. magician in order to make Ben lose the power of transforming into his ten forms, so it’s up to you to find a way to revert this curse and save the day. Ben 10: Power Trip manages to look less appealing than the 2017 release and it features similarly underwhelming character models and design, but without that extra layer of cel shading that manages to make even the ugliest of games a bit more eye candy. The framerate is also all over the place. It runs pretty poorly when you’re in an open world setting, but skyrockets to a surprisingly stable 60 fries a second whenever you find a portal and start exploring the linear course. The same can be said about the sound. It’s fully voice acted, which will please the younger fans of the show, but the soundtrack is cheesy at best at best; Most sound effects are pretty much missing where they should be. When they’re not, they arrive way after their corresponding action due to how out of sync it is. To make the ok worse than it could have been, Ben 10 just doesn’t know what being less talkative means, especially when he’s using one of his forms. Expect to hear a ton of really annoying one liners that would make any adult leave the room to save their sanity. The overall gameplay is where I actually feel like the developers shined despite not being amazing. The open world design is clearly inspired by similar games, in which objectives are easy to follow and complete, and optional side quests are very straight forward. Whenever you’re not stuck in a linear level acquiring a new form, you can do everything from collecting coins to combat arenas and platforming challenges. Nothing in here is particularly challenging, especially considering its child driven demographic. The problem is that everything feels rushed, or half missed. The story levels are simple and boring, while open world objectives lack creativity and more variety. Even though each of Ben’s forms features a surprising amount of combos and special moves, you can beat every single enemy in the entire game with the same combo. You are constantly rewarded with tons of points to improve your stats in a very basic skill tree, so you’ll always be way too powerful. There’s no challenge at all in here but hey it's a kids game. The developers behind Ben 10: Power Trip sure tried coming up with an open world adventure for the younger players to enjoy, but they sadly missed the mark and hit it in the same way. It's an quite pricey game due to the license but any player in the age group should enjoy it on their Xbox One console.… Expand